Hi,

On Wednesday 10 July 2013 17:28:13 Arne Morten Kvarving wrote:
> On 07/10/2013 05:22 PM, Bård Skaflestad wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 17:01 +0200, Arne Morten Kvarving wrote:
> >> what's the current policy with regards to dune? opm master and dune
> >> master currently do not play well together.
> > 
> > I'm not sure we even *have* a policy.  That said, I'm inclined to
> > institute something along the lines of
> > 
> >          OPM is compatible with the latest, official Release version of
> >          the Dune core modules (currently 2.2.1, published on
> >          2013-02-27).  No effort is made to be compatible with older (or
> >          newer) versions of the Dune core modules.
> > 
> > That does leave a period of transition between the time of a new Dune
> > release (e.g., the 2.3 one that's coming up) and the time we catch up to
> > it though.
> > 
> > Still, it makes no sense to chase an in-flux target in my opinion.  The
> > OPM developer resources are strained as is and I think we should really
> > concentrate on improving (and extending) our core domain feature set.  I
> > also think development that is intended to be compatible with as-yet
> > unpublished Dune core modules (i.e., what will become Dune 2.3) should
> > happen in a separate branch in each affected OPM module (e.g., something
> > along the lines of "dune-next-compatible").
> 
> while i agree in principle, it becomes a big issue when you are working
> on extending opm modules with stuff that
> requires new dune functionality. exactly the case i'm in right now. but
> i have my answer, i'll keep relying on ugly patchery for now.

hm, I thought that DUNE has the policy that all code for release N will still 
compile with release N+1 (but with deprecation warnings). Maybe they ditched 
it in the mean time, though.

cheers
  Andreas

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